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June 19, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I don’t know if you’ve read much Paul Auster. I have read a few of his….namely the one I most remember is Brooklyn Follies, which is a perfectly good book about a bookshop owner in a Brooklyn neighborhood dealing with the changing face of the city etc etc. It was nice, if sentimental. So, this one is definitely NOT sentimental. This is a set of diary entries written by a woman named Anna Blume living in an unnamed city in a unnamed future where an […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: in the country of last things, Paul Auster

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:212 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: in the country of last things, Paul Auster ·
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